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Nursing Practice in Action

Used to meet the client's health care needs
The Nursing Process
Nursing process is NOT individualized .

T/F
False
Step of the Nursing Process:

*collecting, organizing, validating and recording data about the clients health
Assessment
Three types of Data
Objective
Subjective
Historical
Two sources of data:
Primary
Secondary
The patients family, other HCP and the record would all be examples of what type of data collection?
Secondary data collection
The patient would be an example of what type of data collection
Primary data collection
using senses, examine what you hear, feel, see, and smell
Objective
pt tells symptoms, how patient feels.
Subjective
A cue is info obtained by senses. T/F
True
Nurses judgement and interpretation of cues
inference
*Analyzing and synthesizing data
* Clustering data to categorize behaviors which reveals the problem
* Problem is revealed
Nursing Diagnosis
A clinical judgement about an individual, family or community responses to actual and potential health problems for which the nurse is accountable
Nursing Diagnosis
NANDA
North
American
Nursing
Diagnostics
Association
Prioritize nursing diagnoses
a goal is written for each problem
expected outcome for each defining characteristic
Write nursing interventions
Planning
broad statement reflecting the resolution of a problem
Goal
specific, measureable statements that reflect ressolution of defining characteristics
Expected Outcomes
*Nursing actions required to prevent, reduce, or eliminate the problem or diagnostic label
*Specific
* Assess, Assist and Teach
Nursing Intervention
Three types of nursing interventions
Physician Initiated
Nurse Initiated
Collaborative
Intervention that was requested and wrote by the Doctor
Physician Initiated
Intervention requested and written by the Nurse
Nurse Initiated intervention
Intervention initiated by several members of the Health Care Team
Collaborative Intervention
Carrying out the planned interventions
Implementing
Reviewing the goal and expected outcomes to determine the degree for which they have been achieved
Evaluating
6 Characteristics of the Nursing Process
* Purposeful
* Interrelated
* Systematic
* Continuous
* Outcome Oriented
* Universally Applied